 | Isaac Sharpless - Society of Friends - 1890 - 286 pages
...1783 Of the Empire 8. It is said that when asked the meaning of the last line one of them replied, "I tell thee, Friend, it is because our country is...destined to be the great empire over all this world." The Free Quakers. 219 The subscription did not cause much difficulty. There was general sympathy with... | |
 | United States - 1896 - 1000 pages
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 | United States - 1894 - 678 pages
...meeting-house was built accordingly. When the wall was nearly finished and the marble tablet was almost being built into its place, one of the Free Quakers...the Society of Friends; the query was still asked at the Yearly Meeting ' ' whether Friends were careful to keep their laborers in harvest and elsewhere... | |
 | Agnes Repplier - Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1898 - 454 pages
...century. A prominent member of the first congregation being asked why it had been used, replied valiantly, "I tell thee, Friend, it is because our country is destined to be the great empire over all the world," — a loyal sentiment, but one that affords no explanation. During the Revolutionary war,... | |
 | Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia - Numismatics - 1916 - 636 pages
...Quakers was asked why the words "In the year of the Empire 8" were inserted to which he answered, "1 tell thee Friend, it is because our country is destined to be a great empire over all this world". The meeting house was completed in 1784, and worship was held... | |
 | George Patterson Donehoo - Pennsylvania - 1926 - 664 pages
...the Empire & A member was asked why this allusion to the "empire" was made. He answered: ""I tell ye, Friend, it is because our country is destined to be the great empire over .all this world." Denied burial places in Quaker ground, the Assembly in 1786, further to endorse the patriotic sentiment... | |
 | George Patterson Donehoo - Pennsylvania - 1926 - 670 pages
...Empire 8. A member was asked why this allusion to the "empire" was made. He answered: '"I tell ye, Friend, it is because our country is destined to be the great empire over all this world." Denied burial places in Quaker ground, the Assembly in 1786, further to endorse the patriotic sentiment... | |
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By general Subscription For the Free Quakers, erected In the year of our Lord 1783 Of the Empire 8. 
